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Byborre names Mijke van Ballegooijen as CEO

Byborre, the Dutch textile innovation company, has named Mijke van Ballegooijen its new chief executive officer to lead “the acceleration of positive change”. In a statement, Byborre said the new leadership will help the company, which has evolved from a creative textile studio into a leading platform for sustainable textiles, to drive...

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ByBorre co-founder: 'The more textiles we sell, the more of a positive impact we make'

Dutch textile innovation company Byborre is committed to shifting towards a circular textile economy and raised nearly 17 million euros in an investment round in early February. With the capital injection, textile designer and ByBorre co-founder Borre Akkersdijk aims to expand internationally and continue investing in automation, materials...

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Byborre raises 16.9 million euros in Series B funding

Dutch textile innovation company Byborre has raised 16.9 million euros (18.3 million US dollars) in a Series B funding round to accelerate its international growth. The funding round was led by Invest-NL and VP Capital, along with existing investors Shift Invest and Amsterdams Klimaat en Energiefonds (AKEF), and a group of angel investors...

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Byborre stepping away from in-house label Editions

Dutch textile innovation studio Byborre has confirmed that Edition11, dropping this month, will be the last collection of its in-house label Editions. In an open letter, Byborre co-founder and chief creative officer, Borre Akkersdijk, said: “There’s nothing that we use more in life than textiles. We need a textile's tactility and protection....

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Byborre to step away from “relentless” fashion calendar

Dutch textile innovation studio Byborre will only issue one collection in 2022, as it steps away from what it calls the “relentless” fashion calendar to show that the industry needs to "make less but better products". In an open letter, Byborre chief creative officer and co-founder, Borre Akkersdijk, said: “Since 2015, we at Byborre have...

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Parley partners with Byborre to launch conscious textile production

Parley for the Oceans is partnering with Dutch textile innovation studio Byborre to launch a range of innovative textiles and wearable products set to be released to retailers and consumers in autumn 2021. The two organisations explain that they have “pushed the boundaries of material innovation to create textiles” by combining Parley’s Ocean...

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BYBORRE SS20: The TDK Edition™ Online Launch

The BYBORRE studio serves both as a material development hub, a production lab, a design studio and, overall, a center for questioning how fashions of the future can be more responsible, providing a better, sustainable product to people worldwide. Showing the depth of BYBORRE’s commitment to improving the wider industry and leading the way when...